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The Rev. Thomas C. Lopes, a Vineyard native who has been ordained for 43 years, will retire as pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, North Easton...
Mosquito Survey
A joint effort is planned for the Vineyard in July, August and part of September to trap and collect mosquitoes that may be...
The Cost of Wind
At a time when sharply rising oil prices are rippling through the economy — pushing up the price of a multitude of commodities,...
Small But Mighty
The piping plover is an amazing profile of endurance, hardiness, fidelity and overcoming long odds for survival. These tiny...
STARTING SMALL
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
When passing by the row of pitch pines along State Road at the Polly Hill Arboretum, I often notice...
I slept with my first beetle at age eight. Ours was a casual affair; two souls finding refuge on my grandmother’s pull-out sofa. But, as with many...
Noisy Gli de
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of June, 1983:
By accident of birth or some would say by destiny, my generation is about to live through yet another sea change of consciousness in this great...
It was as if those audio vignettes so often played on the nearby National Public Radio station WCAI were being spoken out loud, live and seriatum...
“Susan, I have what I swear is a peacock hanging precariously onto my niger (thistle seed) feeder. Earlier the same bird was enjoying cooling off...
By LYNNE IRONS
Don Brown is a marketing genius. There is a gorgeous Golden Rain Tree in North Tisbury. Don put a large number of them for sale...
I have been very blessed lately, and I bet that you have been too.
It is not an epidemic of good fortune, but rather an overabundance of pollen...